themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoEpic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"finance.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square266fedilinkarrow-up1405arrow-down128
arrow-up1377arrow-down1external-linkEpic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"finance.yahoo.comthemachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square266fedilink
minus-squaredeathmetal27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoI’ll respect Tim more if he supports and contributes to Linux.
minus-squaremasterspace@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoLinux Development Quickstart: Get started developing with Unreal Engine on Linux.
minus-squaredeathmetal27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoHow many contributions to RADV, ACO, Proton? Edit: https://www.webpronews.com/radvs-rise-how-valve-and-amd-are-reshaping-linux-graphics-in-late-2025/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/ACO-Scheduler-Heuristics https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Play-Proton-10.0-4 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Upstream-Everything-OSS https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Arch-Linux-Collaboration https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Old-AMD-Linux-Love-Song Edit2: These are the Vulkan specifications: https://registry.khronos.org/vulkan/specs/latest/html/vkspec.html Search “valve” on this page and count the number of results, then search “epic” and compare.
minus-squaremasterspace@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoHow many viable game engines / game development toolchains does Valve produce that run on Linux? You’re cherry picking parts of the ecosystem to care about, because it serves your preexisting narrative that Valve=Good, Epic=Bad.
minus-squaredeathmetal27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoAs a consumer, Valve gives me greater value than Epic. Its just simple as that.
I’ll respect Tim more if he supports and contributes to Linux.
Linux Development Quickstart: Get started developing with Unreal Engine on Linux.
How many contributions to RADV, ACO, Proton?
Edit:
https://www.webpronews.com/radvs-rise-how-valve-and-amd-are-reshaping-linux-graphics-in-late-2025/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ACO-Scheduler-Heuristics
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Play-Proton-10.0-4
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Upstream-Everything-OSS
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Arch-Linux-Collaboration
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Old-AMD-Linux-Love-Song
Edit2:
These are the Vulkan specifications: https://registry.khronos.org/vulkan/specs/latest/html/vkspec.html
Search “valve” on this page and count the number of results, then search “epic” and compare.
How many viable game engines / game development toolchains does Valve produce that run on Linux?
You’re cherry picking parts of the ecosystem to care about, because it serves your preexisting narrative that Valve=Good, Epic=Bad.
As a consumer, Valve gives me greater value than Epic. Its just simple as that.